Famous ENFPs

Thompson: "I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right."

Thompson: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

Thompson: "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."

Thompson: "[Nixon was] a man with no soul, no inner convictions,
with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. ... [He was] absolutely humorless."

Frank Kelly Rich: "There was always a powerful comfort in knowing he was out there somewhere ...
guzzling high-octane whiskey and railing against a world amok with complacency and hypocrisy."

Frank Kelly Rich: "Hunter didn't have to seek out adventure, he was adventure."

ENFP

Mark Twain

Journalist and author

Twain: "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."

Twain: "I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds."

Twain: "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

Twain: "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. ... I've done it
thousands of times."

Twain: "Who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to
pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"

Andrew Carnegie: "The public only knows one side of [Mark Twain] - the
amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a
moralist of no mean order."

Huxley: "[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."

Huxley: "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life."

Huxley: "Genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."

Huxley: "A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he
is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves."

The Guardian: "[He is the] prophet of our present. ... Even his casual asides have a surprising
relevance."

Eco: "[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories
[but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits."

Eco: "[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring.
Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two
can make billions of different numbers."

Eco: "Socrates ... did not write. It seems
academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!"

Nassim Taleb:
"Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones."

Huffington: "I'm passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire
being behind it."

Huffington: "I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike."

[On why she left the right wing:]
Huffington: "[I] realized that corporate
America was never going to step up to the plate and help society's disadvantaged by itself. Other people had
to force [them to do] it."

The Observer: "Hurricane Arianna never stops blowing. ... She has been called the most upwardly
mobile Greek since Icarus."

Kaku: "To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a
passionate love affair with the universe."

Kaku: "Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance
themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science
fiction seriously."

Beth Starbuck: "He has an almost child-like enthusiasm for science."

Colin Blundell: "He has a poetic sensibility."

ENFP

Brian Cox

Physicist

Cox: "What [I'm] attached to are journeys into the unknown and discovering
things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising."

Cox: "I don't need answers to everything. I want to have answers to find."

Cox: "I enjoy [being on] television because there is an artistic side to my character."

Meinhof: "[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ...
the masses will rise against it."

Meinhof: "I can be a subversive element."

Meinhof: "Protest is when I say, 'I don't like this.' Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is
when I say, 'I refuse to go along with this anymore.' Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too."

The Brooklyn Rail: "What Meinhof does so well in [her] columns is remind us that it is possible to discuss the complex and
profound injustices around us in ways that are both clear and direct."

Guevara: "If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine."

Guevara: "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great
feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."

Guevara: "We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to
show you your errors.' ... We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn [from] these people."

Welles: "[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ...
I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of
thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!"

Welles: "I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only
thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere."

Welles: "I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising."

Jean Cocteau: "He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child. [He is] an active idler and a
mad sage."

ENFP

George Carlin

Stand-up comedian

Carlin: "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."

Carlin: "I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet."

Carlin: "What counted to me [was being] true to myself. ... I just had to be who I felt like I was."

Carlin: "I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have
interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch."

Bullock: "I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I
shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'"

Bullock: "I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life."

ENFP

Jenna Elfman

Actress

Elfman: "Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so
badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!"

Elfman: "I [have] love for others and love for life."

ENFP

Alicia Silverstone

Actress and vegetarian activist

Silverstone: "[I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has
been racism, sexism and now there is 'species-ism.' People think that they are better than other creatures."

Silverstone: "One of the things I love best about [my] 'Kind Diet'
is that you will actually become part of the solution to our global problems."

ENFP

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Actress

Gellar: "Being outspoken has always gotten me into trouble. I'm just this little thing
and then all of a sudden it comes out."

Cecilia Bartoli: "When I heard Philippe Jaroussky for the first time, I was struck by his ... sensibility. ...
There is a ... delicacy, if not fragility in his soul, that touches the listener profoundly."

Andreas Scholl: "I experienced, for the first time, what
other people feel when I heard [him sing]. ... I got goosebumps!"

ENFP

James Mercer

(The Shins)

Mercer: "I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on."

Mercer: "I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want]
to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise."

Mercer: "I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me,
the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God."

Mercer: "I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently."

ENFP

Carly Rae Jepsen

Singer-songwriter

Jepsen: "Life's too much fun to have it go in just one direction."

Jepsen: "I'm ... free-spirited. Maybe a little too free-spirited."

Jepsen: "What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine."

ENFP

J.J. Abrams

Director

Abrams: "What I love ... is a sense of unlimited possibility, the sense that life could bring
you anything, that around every corner could be something amazing."

Abrams: "I don't try and look at things from the outside in and apply some kind of
logic - there's no strategy or game plan."

Stephen McPherson: "He manages to maintain an almost childlike thrill to what he's doing."

Damon Lindelof: "His brain can be in 15 places at once. ... He has an X-Men version of ADD, where
it's ... a superpower."

Larson: "[I am] easily adaptable and ready to be in whatever is happening."

Larson: "I love [being] in contact with many different ways of living and different perspectives."

Larson: "[What] is honest to me is not necessarily honest to anybody else. ... There's so
many different ways to be honest. ... Someone ... said 'art is a lie to tell the truth.' I think that's an interesting
concept."

Graphics, logos, scripts, texts, designs,
edits, and service names are the trade-
marks and copyright of CelebrityTypes Ltd.MBTI is the trademark of MBTI Trust, Inc.
The Personality Type Test is the property of CelebrityTypes Ltd.
Pictures and artworks are property of their authors.